Environmental Program Evaluation
Topical Interest Group
EPE TIG members’ interests lie broadly at the intersection of evaluation and the environment, including but not limited to education, climate change, policy, conservation, energy, transportation, and global environmental issues. We share a personal and professional passion for the environment, and for promoting a stronger community of practice in environmental evaluation. The members of the TIG are an inspiring, resourceful, and dynamic community of evaluators – many of whom are leaders in their field. New practitioners learn from the experience of long time evaluators, and more established practitioners learn from the diverse perspectives of an ever-growing member base. To get a sense of what the EPE TIG is all about, check out our upcoming events and our resources (note: these pages are in development).
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AEA Annual Conference 2026 | EPE-themed sessions & posters
Sessions
Thursday | 10:15-11:15am Eastern US
- The Journey Behind the Impact: Building Legacy Evaluation Through a 12-Year Environmental Justice Retrospective | Tasha Parker, Ph.D., LSCSW, MPA - Institute of Development
- You Got This: Helping Environmental Movement Leaders Make Decisions with Real-Time Evaluation Tools | Chris Allan, MA - Ajabu Advisors and Michelle Eckman, MSc - Integrity Acts and Mass Audubon
Thursday | 5:00-6:00pm Eastern US
- Building Capacity through Local Evaluation Clinics: a Cross-sector Toolkit and Model from Environmental Education | Evan Kuras - Data+Soul, Kathryn Stevenson, Monifa Beverly, PhD - Beverly Consulting Group, Michelle Eckman, MSc - Integrity Acts and Mass Audubon, Lydia Sellers, and Elizabeth Whitcher
Posters
Thursday | 10:15-11:15am Eastern US
- Building Organizational Trust and Strengthening Networks to Improve Wellbeing Among Farming Communities | Vivien Ahrens, PhD
- Enabling Team Science Impact Assessment in Agri-Food R&D Through an AI-Enabled Impact Calculator | Peter Pena, David DeYoung, Jane Payumo, PhD - Michigan State University, and George Smith
- Enhancing Agricultural Research and Extension for a Sustainable Agri-Food System: Strategic Insights from India | Satyabrata Mohanty
- Evaluating Cross-Institutional Collaboration in a Children's Environmental Health Research Translation Center | Yuchan Cao
- Expanding the Value Definition: A Low-Income Clean Energy Program Evaluation Study | Cynthia Austin
Thursday | 2:30-3:30pm Eastern US
- Improving Evaluation Accuracy for Understanding Youth Agriscience Career Pathway Outcomes: Evidence from YEA-Juntos Initiative | Autumn Cano-Guin - NC State University/NC Cooperative Extension/NC 4-H, Joy Alcantara Chuquiruna, H. Luz McNaughton Reyes, Leslie Mouchet, Kristin Bedell, and Diana Urieta
- Lessons learned from an evaluation of a conservation agriculture program in Rwanda | Nichola Driver, PhD, Jeff Miller, PhD, Katie George, MPS, and Evanna Ojeda, MPS
Thursday | 3:45-4:45pm Eastern US
- A Participatory Evaluation in Urban Agriculture: The Chicago Community Growers Program | Christina Carr - DePaul University, Adonnis Platt, Howard Rosing, PhD - DePaul University, and Lavidrah Lumayo Shumilah
- Learning and Adapting Traditional Evaluation Approaches to Address Increasing Complex Agricultural Health and Safety Issues | Annie Keeney, Morgan Valley, and Lorann Stallones
Thursday | 5:00-6:00pm Eastern US
- The Evaluation of Graduate Education through the Lens of College of Agriculture Administrators | Aaron Golson, Virginia Brown, DrPH - University of Georgia, and James Anderson
- What Happens Next? A Seven-Year Mixed-Method Evaluation of Veteran Pathways into Agriculture | Sonika Poudel and Tiffany Drape, PhD - Virginia Tech
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